Now I look for new FAQ entries as I continue to monitor all the Open Badges community sites and resources.

Highlights and Trends

What do I see as the highlights and trends (or lack thereof) within the discussion around the beta release of Open Badges?

Most technical questions are with implementing the issuer role.

Non-technical people seem to struggle with the technical issues. This would seem obvious, I do believe the Open Badges partners and community are a less technical and a more pedagogical crowd. This should be expected due to Open Badges playing more in the educational space. The technical challenges should also not come as a surprise given the beta release. I have every faith the open badges platform will become easy for the non-technical badge implementer.

Badge integrity and validation (assertion) is important to people.

Badge systems design is important and still at its early stages. I believe this is due to the broad variety of learning situations badges can be issued.

People are wrapping there heads around badges both from a skills and knowledge perspective and a resume, cv and job search perspective.

People are really interested in how open badges are going to work and be displayed within the whole social media landscape.

Life-long learning seems to be the largest consideration for where badges will be utilized and hold most benefit.

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